Amazon Bar Raiser Interview — Earn Trust

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Earning Trust — one hoodie at a time.

Earn Trust:
Leaders listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. They are vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing. Leaders do not believe their or their team’s body odor smells of perfume. They benchmark themselves and their teams against the best.

Welcome back dear Interviewee! Time to learn about another Leadership Principle — Earn Trust.

Earn Trust (alongside Learn and Be Curious and Ownership) belongs to a special category of leadership principles that not even many Amazon interviewers are aware of or pay much attention to. This category of the principles is referred to as ingrained leadership principles. In other words, these are considered leadership principles that are often hard to teach people and usually are ingrained…